Obama's "Bizarre" Bauhaus Flyers
By employing Bauhaus-inspired graphic cues, the Obama campaign was tapping in to the German cultural psyche, speaking to Germans in a design language that is familiar to them. That was smart.
By employing Bauhaus-inspired graphic cues, the Obama campaign was tapping in to the German cultural psyche, speaking to Germans in a design language that is familiar to them. That was smart.
New York Times | Katharine Q. Seelye | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home
OffTheBus.net, the online citizen-journalist arm of the Huffington Post, celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. Of all the new political, n...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
Most reporters ask the same questions. Meena from Al Jazeera was different. She really wanted to know about "citizen journalism," and made me think all over again about the "citizen" part of the equation.
Beverly Davis | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
It's the season premiere 2008 general election campaign. The music will be blaring, the crowd jumping, the loudspeakers booming. But the real story is that Democratic "unity" is well under way.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
For quite awhile now, I have thought that the netroots affair with Obama would not end well.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
I'm speaking on a panel titled "Reinventing Political Media." Not surprisingly, few of the media being "reinvented" show up for what sounds like a dousing of Chinese Cultural Revolution-style re-education.
Jay Rosen | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
Newsroom people, you don't have to leave the moral universe you grew up in. Just admit the possibility of another valid one beyond yours.
Amanda Michel | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
If only Hunter S. Thompson could weigh in on the debate surrounding Mayhill Fowler's controversial piece on Bill Clinton. Imagine Thompson, pleasantly and belligerently drunk, cursing in some chatroom on the Internets.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
I guess the ethics of journalistic identification are for Mayhill Fowler alone, and for the benefit of the political class being covered.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home
The title "citizen journalist" was always too French Revolution for me, but I've come to appreciate it. The hierarchical world of politics and media is turning upside down, and I feel like Alice down the rabbit hole.
Bill Barol | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media
Getting Bill Clinton to go nuts over somebody writing unkindly about him, and doing it by waving the red-flag words "hatchet job" in his face, isn't called "journalism." It's called "poking the bear."
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
Wouldn't it have been better for Hillary, if, on the eve of the last two primaries, as practically everyone has her finally quitting the race, for Bill to have just kept his mouth shut?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media
I would argue that Clinton would not have apologized if he had not used the word "scumbag." But he realized that using that word made him look like a, well, "scumbag."
Dave Winer | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media
There's too much control of the political process by the press, and that's too easily manipulated by the candidates. We'll see that play out in the fall as press favorites, Obama and McCain, compete.
Heather Robinson | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Since you have got bigger and better> things to do than speak with me in person, I'm writin' this letter. I will always love you Barack, but I WILL NOT be there on Tuesday.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
I have a suggestion: Next time, for fairness sake, Stephanapolous should ask John McCain a question formulated by Bill Ayres.
Tom Alderman | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media
Citizen reporters provide independent, accurate, reliable information that the traditional media doesn't provide, goes the argument. Independent? Perhaps. Accurate and reliable? Can't be sure, say concerned professionals.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home
Don't tell me about how Sen. Obama grew up. His statements demonstrate he doesn't understand small town life or rural voters. Sen. Clinton is the one connecting with us. He could learn from her.
Bill Katovsky | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Ask yourself, would you rather go duck-hunting with Hillary Clinton or Dick Cheney? While the vice president might shoot you in the face, Hillary would plaster your backside with buckshot.
John Tomasic | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
The Bittergate story has prompted responses from many OffTheBus contributors. They've written on the story and its interpretations but also on the new experience of practicing citizen journalism.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.15.2008 | Entertainment
My Off the Bus colleague Mayhill Fowler opened a big old can of class debate on Friday with her 6,000-comment post on Barack Obama.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
You can support Obama for the nomination, support Hillary, or remain neutral, but you must defend Obama from the slings and arrows of these outrageous "elitist" charges.
Scott Shrake | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
There's no conspiracy behind Bittergate. The truth is even more unlikely: Fowler is that rare Barack Obama admirer who can admit he's not perfect. And, hey, that's the right kind of support.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media
Is it important that Obama respect the average American, from big cities to small towns? Of course — but there is more to determining that than just one misbegotten turn of phrase. Like, say, how he bowls.
Christine Escobar | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
The value in the citizen journalist's account comes partly as a result of its being free. They are beholden to no one. They cover and opine and observe subjects but from their own perspective.
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John Lumea | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home